David Alan Grier Quotes

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

David Alan Grier

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• I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Friends
  • Funny

• I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Serious
  • Drama

• Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Me
  • Film
  • Level

• From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Country
  • School

• At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Love
  • Kids

• A few honest men are better than numbers.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Better
  • Numbers

• When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Health
  • Eye

• Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Wonder

• The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Mental

• Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Life
  • Future
  • Die

• I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

  

  Barney Ross
  • War
  • Years
  • Year

• If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • People
  • Spring
  • Greek

• Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Simple
  • Trust
  • Try

• Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Growth

• The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • True
  • Forever

• What is divinity if it can comeOnly in silent shadows and in dreams?

  

  Wallace Stevens

• It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

  

  Alexander Fleming
  • May
  • Team
  • Perception

• I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Parents

• Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.

  

  Piyush Goyal
  • People

• Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Up
  • Movie

• The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

  

  Peter C. Doherty
  • Different
  • Science

• I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

  

  David Alan Grier